Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-29
DAILY HERALD.
THE CHURCHES.
n Urace Of DiscOurscs Delivered
Yesterday.

Yesterday.
Below will be found extracts from
interesting discourses delivered at two
of our churches yesterday. The
HxnALD ON Monday morning produces
such news of the churches as may be
handed in on Sunday evening.
xxv. FATHER scANNELL ON EDUCATION.
Rev. Father Scannell preached at
the Cathedral yesterday morning tax
ing for his subject "The Education Of
the Young"
s'It is good for a man to have borne
the Joke from his YOUTH" Jer. C. 8.
Almighty God has pleased to make us
dependent on one another in our
various necessities.
The inferior animals are born suf-
.6ciently provided with the necessary
instincts for preservation Of their ex-
istence. Some of them, Immediately
st their birth, seperate from their
parents, and live and thrive without
the aid of any lesson from those who
have given them their being; and if
others have needed some care in the
first periods of their existence, they
hasten soon to follow their own pro-
per instincts and live in the same man
ner as the other animals of their race
and kind, which have proceeded them.
But it is not 80 with man. His par
ents have to watch over him with care
and anxiety all along those years, till
he has arrived at discretion and ma
turity. From the very fact that man
il endowed with more excellent facul-
ties, the progress and development of
those faculties become more slow and
gradual, till he has arrived at the full
perfection of mental and physical
growth.
We know by experience how the
skillful gardner increases the growth
and fruitfulness of plant by the care
he bestows on it and how also we can
utilize the inferior animals for differ
ent necessities by the training We
give them when they are young. With
more reason, therefore, does man re-
uuire an education and a culture and
a vigilance and training to bring him
to maturity; that he may fully unfold
and develop those sublime intellec-
tual gifts, which have fallen to his
share, that intelligence which makes
him like the angels; that soul, which
elevates him toward God himself /;
those affections, which may be con-
centrated within the narrow circle of
selfishness or be made to expand
over broad area of
sympathy, charity and philan-
trophy for his fellow man. What the
intelligent cultivator, therefore, is to
the tender plant; what the skilled
trainer is to the young animal, that is
what education is to the child, making
out of an erring creature, subject to
temptation and passion during his So
journ on earth, a being truly intelli-
gent and rational, virtuous and
immortal.
There is no alternative between
making a child virtuous and letting
him go down the precipice of evil. If
a child is abandoned to himself, with
out any education, he will not bear
the "yoke" from his youth. Leave
his reason without culture, leave
him without any discipline, and
what will become Of him? You know,
my brethren, that by the corruption of
his nature, he has received the germs
Of evil from his birth; if this nature
be not neutralized by any contrary
power or principle; if there be no care
extended to make grow, then the
good seeds and plants of virtue it will
become barren and Improbable, and
produce only thorns and briars. If
you do not, therefore, give to youth
assiduuus and constant care to
neutralize as much as possible. his
vicious inclinations when they begin
to take root, and to tend, if you do
not plant in their place, the healthy
seeds of virtue, that will keep down
those noxious weeds, and prevent
them from making headway in their
growth; the consequences will be that
those vicious inclinations shall have
only too quickly acquired strength
too powerful to be checked or eradi-
Gated. They shall lay siege to the
youthful heart, and completely possess
it. They shall extend their roots so
deeply that the hand of man
cannot reach or arrest them. They
shall go on spreading their vicious
notifications SO far and wide that
their bad influence shall prove fatal
not only to the youth himself but to
all those with whom he may come in
contact. And what can repress those
vicious passions? What reign despoti-
cally in the heart? All, there is
nothing to teach them! There is no
principal in the heart to form barrier
against them or to make them feel
that there is a supernatural reward,
and an honest pride and satisfaction
is having triumphed over a bad
thought or vicious inclination or to
have resisted the temptation to com
NIT new evils; and thus the child
without education goes on increasing
in obstinacy and wickedness break
ing every law and every fet-
ter until he ends in the
prison cell or the felon's
grave. Do you think that when he
becomes member of society he will
make good parent, an honorable cit
izen, an industrious workman? How
can that person become industrious
and economical who has no control
over himself? How can he devote his
time and labor to any particular OBJ
ject or special industry, when this is
q quality in direct opposition to the
disordered life he has been leading
from his youth? Out of such are
made, to a great extent, the number of
those who fall in prisons, and thus fall
under the sword OF the law, premature
victims of perversity and crime. If
we, therefore, consult for the interests
of society to which we belong, and OF
which the rising generations shall be-
come members, we must devote our
earnest attention to education in a
proper manner, and for high and noble
ends, the generation that to-day is de-
prived of its benefit.
Not less pernicious, perhaps, in its
logical development is an education
without religion. 1t implies that re.
l;gion ia a thing which should be left